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Vortices of the Hitchin Equations

Authors: Nicholas S. MantonPublished: 2026-08-11Paper ID: 2608.10982Category: hep-thLicense: CC BY 4.0

Abstract

The vortices that appear in Hitchin's pioneering study of Higgs bundles are interpreted as a new version of the abelian Higgs vortices more familiar to theoretical physicists. Their conformal covariance is made explicit.

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